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The article presents some lines of Middle English verse from one of the Cambridge University Library fragments. These fragments consist of four leaves with writing on both sides--all in the same hand, which is an "anglicana" of the third or fourth quarter of the fourteenth century--and are now labeled a/b, c/d, e/f, g/h respectively. The incidence of missing sequences of the texts, by comparison with other available versions, and in relation to the hypothetically available number of lines in the fragments raises baffling difficulties.